When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.